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- 12:56, 30 May 2024 Retronym (hist | edit) [662 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Abbreviations: Acronyms, Initialisms, Contractions, Apocopation#Retronym) Tag: New redirect
- 13:18, 28 May 2024 UHER 4000 notes (hist | edit) [1,359 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " You can find the {{imagesearch|UHER 4000 schematics|schematics for the device in its service manual}} mentioning how these are wired, and you will find hobbyism as well. BUT note there are a few variants of the UHER 4000, with slightly different features (e.g. stero versus mono) and/or slightly different plugs, so double-check that it matches what you have. MICRO: * 7-pin DIN : seems to contain separate wiring for mic and headphones : and two pins ground, and two...")
- 13:16, 28 May 2024 Dead drop (hist | edit) [512 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} Passing things or communication without having to meet personally - also meaning that if one is tracked, that does not implicate the other as ''another'' potential person of interest. Electronic dead drops are typically short bursts of often-short-range tranmissions (both to be harder to pinpoint or monitor, but also because portable devices had limited range), where the other party knows when and where to listen. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/deaddr...")
- 15:36, 24 May 2024 Masked language modeling (hist | edit) [1,001 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Masked language modeling is somewhat fuzzily defined. It is a task -- but it's typically implemented with a very specific type of neural nets. '''What is the task?''' The task removes one word from a piece of text {{comment|(or rather replaces it with a token indicating "missing word goes here")}}, and asks to predict the most likely word. '''Why is it NNs?''' Because of the ''way'' we like to use a window of context around it (in both directions), this is...")
- 12:08, 24 May 2024 Stack trace (hist | edit) [673 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- A stack trace is often printed to help give you an idea of what a process was doing, often as debug when something isn't quite right. Classical execution does function calls via the stack ('the stack' being a portion of memory a task reserves for this, and has a predictable structure -- a data stack), so the stack happens to be a great way to inspect what a process was executing at a point in time. The 'call stack' is basically what the stack shows about functi...") originally created as "Call trace"
- 10:52, 23 May 2024 Serialization, marshalling, etc. (hist | edit) [5,116 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- Serialization seems to originate from "that your programming language lets you think of it purely functionally is great and all, but when you want to write whatever you have to a sequence of bytes on disk, how do you do that?" (which, note, relates to the concept of reification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization -->")
- 10:35, 23 May 2024 Jnd (hist | edit) [2,033 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- '''Just-Noticeable Difference''' (sometimes JND), and the closely related '''Difference Threshold''' refers to the amount of difference for us to recognize two things are different. Often it matters less what you can see in lab conditions, with highly engineered sensors. This is a much more practical measure in that it approximates our human senses. Two different weights, two different colors, two different sound levels, two different amounts of sugar in one's...")
- 15:22, 17 May 2024 Collaborative filtering (hist | edit) [170 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Find items someone might like based on reactions from similar users. This can be explicit tagging, but is often more subtle, such as "likes artist A and B" -->")
- 17:22, 13 May 2024 Console generations (hist | edit) [738 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Console generations are a weird example of something that was ''never a thing'' but became In fact, wikipedia's descriptions seem to have have had a strong influence -- in that it was adopted by game manufacturers. Wikipedia's grouping -- like most others -- seems to just group some stuff in time and squeezed some similar specs, not have much technical basis) Which is interesting in a truth-telling sense, because this is now wikipedia quoting manufacturers qu...")
- 10:53, 13 May 2024 Hobby / Sewing notes (hist | edit) [1,503 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Issues== ===Loose switches=== <!-- Probably the top tension is too low - specifically low top tension. See #adjusting top tension. Tension is a way of adding friction, so the thread resists pull a little (often the thread pulled through two disks that are pushed together). {{comment|If you want an intuition for why what is useful, look at a nice animation for what sowing does with the two wires - you can imagine that the top part not pulling hard enough does not...")
- 22:36, 12 May 2024 Pylint notes (hist | edit) [612 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Some added notes== <!-- ==redefined-outer-name / W0621 / Redefining name %r from outer scope (line %s)== This definition hides a variable of the same name defined in an outer scope (or except handler). * A simple example is using a local variable when there is a global of the same name. : This is often not wrong, just potentially confusing : note that having a script with a "if __name__=='__main__'" block -- that is global scope. If you want to avoid the warning...")
- 14:09, 10 May 2024 Parts per million (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- ppm ppmv ppb ppbv -->")
- 19:36, 7 May 2024 Adventures in response time (hist | edit) [293 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}}")
- 17:49, 7 May 2024 Bandwidth isn't latency (hist | edit) [8 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}}")
- 12:59, 7 May 2024 Secret sprawl (hist | edit) [1,187 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- {{name|Secret sprawl}} refers to codebases or installations that have secrets strewn around them. Often, you put in secrets in places that needed it to ''function'' -- and then forgot all the places you did that. Secret means anything that you don't want someone else to have - passwords, secret keys. The problems with this include * we don't even know where it is - * we don't know where it's going - is this code shared? * '''What about fine-grained secre...")
- 17:54, 4 May 2024 RSSI (hist | edit) [1,136 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- RSSI (which in some contexts is just called Energy Detection) is often just a measure of raw power, so not only does does it not indicate quality, RSSI may not have a very accurately referenced unit (or even be used unitles), because it might have to assume details about the antenna (and more) to do that, but at the same time that may only mean it's a fixed amount off. RSSI does not mean the presence of a coherent signal -- it could be detecting some incompatible...")
- 01:30, 29 April 2024 OpenEPaperLink notes (hist | edit) [3,192 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- The idea seems to be that, since every tag has a 802.15.4 radio, if you add an ESP32 to just one of these tags, you now have a tag "AP": you can talk to it over wifi, it can talk to all tags over 802.15.4 (not technically zigbee). You can also integrate with home assistant - this uses websockets over wifi(?) Regular API-like access can be made to the AP -- https://github.com/jjwbruijn/OpenEPaperLink/wiki/Image-upload Which suggests the Tags use e...")
- 19:35, 28 April 2024 Inversion of control (hist | edit) [0 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created blank page)
- 23:24, 26 April 2024 Rubber ducking (hist | edit) [528 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Rubber duck programming means you put a rubber duck on your desk. When you are stuck, cursing the thing you just sorta-assume-checked should probably work, you explain it to the rubber duck. Usually, the fact that you had to reform your thoughts into a simplified set of sentences rather than a nebulous set of assumptions you ''obviously'' don't have to check will make you realize which of those assumptions is probably wrong. It also works with stuffed animals,...")
- 09:21, 26 April 2024 Partial pressure (hist | edit) [468 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Partial pressure is one of those concepts that signal you're on the more complex side of everyday physics. At the same time, partial pressure is relatively literal: in a mixture of gases, the partial pressure of one gas is the pressure it would exert if the other gases were removed. It's useful because this (and not concentration) is the main factor in how gases diffuse, dissolve, and react[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_pressure])}}{{verify}} -->")
- 11:01, 24 April 2024 Multitrackers (hist | edit) [370 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Multitrackers refer to recording or samplers that record onto distinct tracks, letting you bring specific parts in and out. For a time, a physical multitracker (often tape) was a prime way way of doing recording and basic mixing, and terms like bouncing come from this era. These days, DAWs allow us to be much more flexible (sometimes a little too much) -->")
- 14:53, 23 April 2024 How do I set up my own wiki (hist | edit) [589 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} <!-- Choose a wiki software that does what you want it to do. This particular wiki is mediawiki -- the same one wikipedia uses. It may be overkill. Also, it needs somewhere to store data, so it will take ''some'' amount of install or config. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software -->")
- 23:15, 22 April 2024 Time to penis (hist | edit) [222 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In games, if you give people an open world, creativity, the ability to draw a thing, create a track, get a shove, manipulate ''anything''. ...they will draw a penis. TTP, time to penis. Presumably, this is a constant.")
- 17:47, 16 April 2024 Loopback (hist | edit) [671 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Loopback, in a wider sense, tends to mean 'wire an output to input, probably on the same device'. In audio, : it can mean that at analog level, or at digital level : but you may see the term more in a "we can treat this digital output as an input again" sense : see also Electronic_music_-_notes_on_audio_APIs#"Why_are_some_things_called_loopback?" In linux, * a loop/loopback device makes a file accessible as a block device (sort of by connecting one API's...")
- 17:00, 15 April 2024 Revox B77 notes (hist | edit) [197 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- There are three motors The capstan motor seems direct drive, meaning the only twp belts in the system seem to be the counter's, which you can do without. -->")
- 16:55, 15 April 2024 RTP notes (hist | edit) [301 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- RTP is designed for end-to-end transfer of streaming media or other real-time media (consider e.g. e.g. RTP-MIDI), having things like jitter compensation detection of packet loss out-of-order delivery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_Transport_Protocol -->")
- 14:02, 9 April 2024 Dcc (hist | edit) [281 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Around internet chat, Direct Client-to-Client was a way to do file transfers over IRC Around audio, digital compact casette was a digital audio recording medium.")
- 17:22, 7 April 2024 Primary, secondary, tertiary source (hist | edit) [2,741 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- '''In a general-knowledge sense''' * primary resource - to get as close to the original ideas as we can :: firsthand evidence gathered by the author, creative works by an author, the published results of research :: not a refinement of an earlier source :: preferably from the time - reports, letters, speeches, diaries, photographs, conference proceedings, newspaper reports :: ..but possibly documented later (recalled by the primary source), such as autobiographies...")
- 01:47, 6 April 2024 Zero-copy (hist | edit) [459 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Zero-copy often means that when you want to hand data to a client, you can sometimes, instead of a copy, hand a reference to the data itself. For example, messagepack is a serialization, so you can get it to, instead of returning copies of strings, point within the original data it was decoding. Sometimes this is done for speed, sometimes it is done to avoid a duplicate of data, especially for large data. -->")
- 15:47, 4 April 2024 Universal Naming Convention (hist | edit) [1,450 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- Universal Naming Convention is a Microsoft(/IBM) standard of referring to remote network share paths, introduced as something Explorer could do around WinNT/Win95. It amounts to: \\<server>\<sharepoint>\<path> Where server can be * IPv4 address * server name * IPv6 address https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/62e862f4-2a51-452e-8eeb-dc4ff5ee33cc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats#unc-path...")
- 00:35, 2 April 2024 Error function, loss function (hist | edit) [128 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/359043/what-is-the-difference-between-a-loss-function-and-an-error-function -->")
- 13:34, 1 April 2024 Global (hist | edit) [373 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- In python, the global keyword (lets you write to -->")